We'll sing a song, a soldier's song
 With cheering rousing chorus
 As round our blazing fires we throng
 The starry heavens o'er us
 Impatient for the coming fight
 And as we await the morning's light
 Here in the silence of the night
 We'll chant a soldier's song
 Soldiers are we,
 whose lives are pledged to Ireland,
 Some have come
 from a land beyond the wave,
 Sworn to be free,
 no more our ancient sireland,
 Shall shelter the despot or the slave.
 Tonight we man the "bearna baoil",
 In Erin's cause, come woe or weal,
 ’Mid cannon's roar and rifles' peal,
 We'll chant a soldier's song